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Unit 2 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He proposed the American system | Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun |
| Wrote stories of the French & Indian War such as "The Last of the Mohicans" | James F. Cooper |
| Wrote Folk tales of Dutch settlers like "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | Washington Irving |
| Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
| Supreme Court Chief Justice whose decisions strengthened the national government | John Marshall |
| This treaty removed warships from the Great Lakes following the War of 1812 | Rush-Bagot Treaty |
| This treaty acquired Florida from Spain | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| Treaty that settled the Maine - Canada border | Webster - ashburton Treaty |
| This treaty set the border between Louisiana Territory and Canada at the 49th parallel | British - American Convention |
| Case that upheld the supremacy of the federal government and declared that states could not tax the National Bank | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Case upheld federal authority over interstate commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Religious revival movement that swept the nation | The second great awakening |
| Religious group that was persecuted for the practice of polygamy | Mormonism |
| Philosophical movement derived from Romanticism. Stressed ties to nature | Transcendentalism |
| Religious community that practiced celibacy & a simple lifestyle | Shakers |
| She helped organize the 1848 women rights convention | Margaret Fuller |
| Founder and leader of the Shakers | Mother Ann Lee |
| She worked to gain more humane treatment of the mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
| Reclusive poet whose works became well known after her death | Emily Dickinson |
| Inventor of the sewing machine | Elias Howe |
| 2 examples of transcendentalist authors | Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Henry David Thoreau |
| Pioneer in education reforms | Horace Mann |
| Author of tales about early New England such as the "The Scarlet Letter" | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Inventor of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| Founder of the Mormon Church | Joseph Smith |
| Inventor of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Writer of horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Leading white male abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Leading black male abolitionist and publisher of The North Star | Frederick Douglas |
| Black female abolitionist known for her speech making abilities | Sojourner Truth |
| Black female abolitionist known for her work with the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| The president during the "Era of Good Feelings" | James Monroe |
| Movement to convince people to stop drinking alcohol | Temperance Movement |
| This policy statement continued neutrality but added the warning that the U.S. wanted no more European colonization in the Western Hemisphere | Monroe Doctrine |
| Site of early textile mill town that attempted to treat workers well | Lowell, MA |
| Vice president who wrote the South Carolina Protest & Exposition against tariffs | John C. Calhoun |
| U.S. President who "Killed" the second National Bank | Andrew Jackson |
| President of the National Bank | Nicholas Biddle |
| He debated Robert Haynes in the Senate and defeated the supremacy of the national government over the states | Daniel Webster |
| He won the 1824 election by a vote of the House of Representatives in what became known as the "Corrupt Bargain" | Andrew Jackson |
| President after Jackson. Signed the Independent Treasury Act | Martin Van Buren |
| Term: Approval from the people after a big electoral victory | Mandate |
| Term: For negative attacks on candidates during elections | Mudslinging |
| What critics called Jackson's "rotation in office" of federal workers | Spoils System |
| Term: Describing a states' attempt to ignore a law passed by Congress | Nullification |
| Term: For hard currency; gold or silver coin | Specie Circular |
| When you buy something (Land, stocks) in hopes of selling it at a profit | Speculation |
| Political party formed by Andrew Jackson and that promoted states rights | Democratic Party |
| New name for the National Republican Party to show their opposition to Andrew Jackson | Whig Party |
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